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Figuring Genre in Roman Satire

Book by Catherine Keane; Oxford University Press, 2006

Subjects:

Literary Form--History--To 1500, Literature And Society--Rome, Social Problems In Literature, Verse Satire, Latin--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...criticism. Drama, like satire, is a literary form that employs the...that fit well into satires entertaining narrative...vice it condemns, satire recommends an opposing...potential to edify. Satires models-both individually...and agenda. While satire already shares elements...theater in being a literary form, its advertised...
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American Literature in Parody: A Collection of Parody, Satire, and Literary Burlesque of American Writers Past and Present

Book by Robert P. Falk, Burges Green; Twayne Publishers, 1955

Subjects:

American Literature, Parodies, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...attitudes towards its subject--satire and sympathy. It involves...declined since the passing of the literary debunkers of the 1920s when...rendered the satirist of American literary gods an object of suspicion...is directed toward our own literary traditions, it can be one...
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Writing down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry

Book by John Henderson; Clarendon Press, 1999

Subjects:

Latin Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--Rome, Rome--In Literature, Self In Literature, Verse Satire, Latin--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for all to see and rub in, Satires very own constitutional weakness...the stock-in-trade of Satire, is the fascination of our...images the desire of lovers of satire: literary flatophily flatophilology...his new pal, in the lurch, Satire into Comedy wont go? The...
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Skelton and Satire

Book by A. R. Heiserman; University of Chicago Press, 1961

Subjects:

Drama, Satire, English--History And Criticism, Skelton, John--1460?-1529

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...pity to throw out the term "satire," especially on the basis...specific, and sophisticated literary productions encountered in...fact distinguish two types of literary works. The adjectives in...strict definition" of English satire up to the Elizabethan period...difficult to give medieval satires any "consistent treatment...
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Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama

Book by Femi Euba; Greenwood Press, 1989

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Archetypes In Literature, Blacks In Literature, Drama--Black Authors--History And Criticism, Esu (Legendary Character), Fate And Fatalism In Literature, Satire--History And Criticism, Yoruba (African People)--Folklore

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...basic to the many forms of satire and highlights its two essential...limited in scope with regard to satires literary development. Indeed, satire, long before the word entered...in existence not only as a literary form in classical Greek and...

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Journal Articles on: satire literary

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Patient Grissil and Jonsonian Satire

Journal article by Tom Rutter; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 48, 2008

Subjects:

Chettle, Henry--Criticism and interpretation, Chettle, Henry--Works, Dekker, Thomas (English playwright)--Criticism and interpretation, Dekker, Thomas (English playwright)--Works, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Works, Every Man Out of His Humour (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Haughton, William Robert--Criticism and interpretation, Haughton, William Robert--Works, Jonson, Ben--Criticism and interpretation, Jonson, Ben--Works, Literary styles--Analysis, Patient Grissil (Play)--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Works, Satire--Analysis, Style, Literary--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...propriety of dramatic satire, and hence over...three "comical satires," and question...heightened form of literary authority for himself...of the "comical satires," the first play...reaction to the literary and dramatic climate...particular the vogue for satire among the Inns...these banished satires." (18) Less...decision to write satire was a conscious...a response to a literary climate in which...
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Reconstructive Realism: Satire in Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty

Journal article by Todd Thompson; The Journal of American Culture, Vol. 29, 2006

Subjects:

Literary criticism, Novels, Political power, Politics, Reconstruction period-US, Social criticism & satire

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...reconciliation through national unity. Satire, then, is for De Forest...De Forest accomplishes this literary disarmament is through a wry...claims for Miss Ravenel as a satire: for, as a general rule, satires resist tidy endings. But...I have noted, De Forests satire undertakes the unusual project...
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Intertextual Influences in Byron's Juvenalian Satire

Journal article by Steven E. Jones; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 33, 1993

Subjects:

Byron, George Gordon, Lord--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Analysis, Satire--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...escape falling into literary prostitution. Critics of Byrons satire have frequently used...scourged contemporary literary pretensions in The...naturally enough. Giffords Satires of Juvenal was by far...also including the satires of Persius) in 1817...transmitted. It shows us literary history at its most...he learns to write satire; in retrospect we...
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Babel''s Fantastic Tales in the Tradition of Menippean Satire

Journal article by Victor Peppard; Canadian Slavonic Papers, Vol. 49, 2007

Subjects:

Babel, Isaac, Literary criticism, Social criticism & satire

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...considered part of menippean satire. For example, ghost...signal contributions to literary scholarship is to show...hallmark of menippean satire is the way in which different...incongruity of menippean satire that makes fun of and...written in the standard literary language.9 The first...
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Figures of Repetition: Continuity and Discontinuity in Karl Kraus's Satire

Journal article by Gilbert Carr; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007

Subjects:

Kraus, Karl--Criticism and interpretation, Literary techniques--Criticism and interpretation, Satire--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Discontinuity in Karl Krauss Satire. by Gilbert Carr...artist of language in literary and erotic experience...mere extracts of literary work in progress...never quite freed satire from dependence...a sophisticated literary strategy, just...powerlessness of satire aims at mobilizing...

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Magazine Articles on: satire literary

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Boomsday: Bankrupt Satire

Magazine article by Jessica Clark; In These Times, Vol. 31, April 2007

Subjects:

Baby boomers, Books, Buckley, Christopher, Budget deficits, Literary criticism, Retirement benefits, Social criticism & satire

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Boomsday: Bankrupt Satire by Jessica Clark Libertarians are a strange lot. Their targets often...to the crux of the matter: Boomsday is not just another hardworking satire, struggling to keep up with the absurdity of the era. Its a stunt...
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From Horace's "Satires"

Magazine article by A.M. Juster; New Criterion, Vol. 26, November 2007

Subjects:

Book II, Satire VI (Poem)--Excerpts, Horace--Criticism and interpretation, Horace--Works, Poetry--Excerpts, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...Moreover, our mainstream literary culture doesnt value comic...faithful version of Horaces Satires into rhyme and meter for the...is the opening of Book II, Satire VI, a section which gives...Unlike Horaces earliest satires, in which he struggles with...deprecatory humor used in this satire. This approach had the practical...
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In Defence of Cultural Freedom: Or How the Inadvertent Spillage of the Merest Blob of Creme Brulee Changed the Course of British Literary History

Magazine article by R. Mostyn Pritt; New Statesman, Vol. 125, June 28, 1996

Subjects:

Bloomsbury group--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Sex and history--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...defence of cultural freedom: or how the inadvertent spillage of the merest blob of creme brulee changed the course of British literary history by R. Mostyn Pritt Sexual intercourse began, according to Philip Larkin, in 1963. But for those of us fortunate...
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Flash Backs Looking Back on Literary History (Backstory)

Magazine article; Book, November 2002

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Attorneys as authors, Authors, Blacklisting of authors, Conrad, Joseph, Dumas, Alexandre, Faulkner, William, Inspiration--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Physicians as authors, Prisoners as authors, Tolkien, J. R.R.

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

Flash Backs Looking Back on Literary History (Backstory). 1830 CRIME WRITER During Frances July Revolution, Alexandre Dumas, author of The Count of Monte Cristo...
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Talk Is Cheap: Leo Robson Says the Man Booker Prize Is a Mere Literary Toy

Magazine article by Leo Robson; New Statesman (1996), Vol. 139, October 4, 2010

Subjects:

Booker Prize--2010 AD, Literary prizes--Analysis, Novels--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Man Booker Prize Is a Mere Literary Toy. by Leo Robson Every summer...standards, that looks like literary criticism. When the longlist...first-timers", say, or "satire", it is a coincidence: those...Man Booker Prize is a mere literary toy, any Booker chat just...

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Newspaper Articles on: satire literary

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Damn Yeats! Well Write Our Own Plays! Satire: A Scene from Gerald McNamaras the Mist That Does Be on the Bog

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 10, 2008

Subjects:

Wetlands

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Well Write Our Own Plays! Satire: A Scene from Gerald McNamaras...writers who were partof the Irish Literary Renaissance. For too long...Northern Revival was the Ulster Literary Theatre, a nationalisttheatre...the foundations of theUlster Literary Theatre. The new name indicates...
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A Novel of Ideas That's Also a Satire of University Life

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 13, 2005

Subjects:

Novelists, Smith, Zadie

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

A Novel of Ideas Thats Also a Satire of University Life. Byline: Vincent...years. "White Teeth" (2000) put the literary world on notice that her voice demanded...ideas, it is also a comic novel full of satire and farce. Several episodes are devilishly...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE; Laughter Zone: Jokes Are Aplenty in American Playwright Bruce Norris's Satire the Pain and the Itch

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 5, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Aplenty in American Playwright Bruce Norriss Satire the Pain and the Itch. Byline: NICHOLAS...this abrasive, relentless and very funny satire from Americanplaywright Bruce Norris...triangular love affairin late-Seventies literary London. In this least Pinteresque and...
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Fflur Is Top Novelist; Just-Married Writer Takes Fiction Prize for Dark Library Satire

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), August 5, 2009

Subjects:

Libraries

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Writer Takes Fiction Prize for Dark Library Satire. Byline: ERYL CRUMP A NEWLY married...themes - digitisation, post-feminism, literary criticism and, most importantly, a nations...Fflur is no stranger to winning major literary titles. Three years she won the Prose...
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Will's Way with Words; in Association with DOC FICTORIA Stena Line David Powell Talks to Many-Talented Motormouth Will Self as His Unique Mix of Satire and Silliness Heads for Caernarfon

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 2, 2008

Subjects:

Ferry services

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Motormouth Will Self as His Unique Mix of Satire and Silliness Heads for Caernarfon. Byline...these evenings tend to be not oppressively literary. A lot of people come because theyve...velvet rut of it. "But I dont think its satire really. Its cosy. They cant get politicians...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: satire literary

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Horace

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...lengthy visits to Rome. His first book of Satires appeared in 35 b.c., the Epodes c.30 b.c., the second book of Satires in 29 b.c., three books of Odes c...personal vilification to more generalized satire and to literary criticism. He gives a vivid picture...
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Pope, Alexander

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...English poet. Although his literary reputation declined somewhat...Although he is known for his literary quarrels, Pope never lacked...career Pope turned to writing satires and moral poems. These include...Dunciad (1728 43), a scathing satire on dunces and literary hacks in which Pope viciously...
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Danish Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...stimulated religious polemic and satire as well as the literary use of the Danish language...transcendent figure in Danish literary culture was N. F. S. Grundtvig...never the sole fruit of Danish literary endeavor. Both before and after...
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Tucholsky, Kurt

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...pacifist, antifascist writing marked a high point in German literary journalism. He wrote under four pseudonyms: Ignaz Wrobel (contemporary satire), Peter Panter (theater and literary criticism, travel), Theobald Tiger (poetry), Kaspar...
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Aristophanes

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...mix political, social, and literary satire. The direct attack on persons...The Knights (424), a political satire on the demagoguery of the period...misogyny; The Frogs (405), a literary satire involving Aeschylus and...

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